Runaway

It's four in the morning as cold as it goes

Snow softly falling on the windows

Pull out the suitcase empty out the drawers

No fear of her husband as he snores

The children are sleeping don't know what's in store

How she dreads the moment when she has to close their door

No turning back now down the stairs

to wake them now is more than she could bear

She's a runaway

She has to runaway

She's a runaway

She had to runaway

By five in the morning the station is warm

Sitting with her memories on the floor

A polarized history of her family and friends

For all intents and purposes she'll never see again

She's a runaway

She has to runaway

She's a runaway

She's had to runaway

Been coming on for years

They've had it up to here

and no way could escape

be so cruel to be kind

and so she ran away

By nine in the evening the apartment is cold

Wishing there was something she could hold

Like a child needs a mother love from a wife

Is this the rest of her life

She's a runaway

She has to runaway

She's a runaway

No time to say goodbye